Thursday, March 31, 2011

Family Guy, Vol. 6

Family Guy
Family Guy, Vol. 6
Seth MacFarlane (Actor), Alex Borstein (Actor), Brian Iles (Director), Chris Robertson (Director) | Format: DVD
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3.8 out of 5 stars(99)

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America's first family of comedy is back with its sixth volume of hilarity and hi-jinx.

  • Audio: English: 5.1 Dolby Surround
  • Language: Dubbed: English / Subtitled: English, French, & Spanish
  • Aspect Ratio: Full Screen: 1.33:1

Disc 1:
  • No Meals On Wheels
  • Unrated audio is Default. Uncensored Audio
  • Commentary by Executive Producer Seth MacFarlane, Director Greg Colton, Writer Mike Henry, Actor Patrick Warburton and Composer Walter Murphy
  • Boys Do Cry
  • Unrated audio is Default. Uncensored Audio
  • Commentary by Executive Producers Seth MacFarlane and Danny Smith, Director Brian Iles, and Writer Cherry Chevapravatdumrong
  • No Chris Left Behind
  • Unrated audio is Default. Uncensored Audio
  • Commentary by Executive Producers Seth MacFarlane, David A. Goodman and Chris Sheridan, Director Pete Michels, Writer Patrick Meighan and Actor Seth Green
  • It Takes A Village Idiot, And I Married One
  • Unrated audio is Default. Uncensored Audio
  • Commentary by Executive Producer Seth MacFarlane, Co-Executive Producer Danny Smith, Writer/Actor Alex Borstein and Actor Mila Kunis
  • Meet The Quagmires
  • Unrated audio is Default. Uncensored Audio
  • Commentary by Executive Producer Seth MacFarlane, Director Dan Povenmire, Writer Mark Hentemann, Actor Adam Carolla and Production Staff Kara Vallow

Disc 2:
  • Movin' Out (Brian's Song)
  • Unrated audio is Default. Uncensored Audio
  • Commentary by Executive Producers Seth MacFarlane, David A. Goodman and Chris Sheridan, Director Cyndi Tang and Writer John Viener
  • Believe It Or Not, Joe's Walking On Air
  • Unrated audio is Default. Uncensored Audio
  • Commentary by Executive Producer Seth MacFarlane, Director Julius Wu, Writer Andrew Goldberg, Actor Patrick Warburton and Composer Walter Murphy
  • (100th episode) Stewie Kills Lois
  • Unrated audio is Default. Uncensored Audio
  • Commentary by Executive Producers Seth MacFarlane, David A. Goodman and Chris Sheridan, Co-Producer Kim Fertman, Director Greg Colton, Writer Steve Callaghan, Actor Alex Borstein and Composer Ron Jones
  • Lois Kills Stewie
  • Unrated audio is Default. Uncensored Audio
  • Commentary by Executive Producers Seth MacFarlane, David A. Goodman and Chris Sheridan, Co-Producer Kim Fertman, Director Greg Colton, Writer Steve Callaghan, Actor Alex Borstein and Composer Ron Jones
  • Padre de Familia
  • Unrated audio is Default. Uncensored Audio
  • Commentary by Executive Producers Seth MacFarlane and David A. Goodman, Director Pete Michels, Writer Kirker Butler and Actor Phyllis Diller
  • Peter's Daughter
  • Unrated audio is Default. Uncensored Audio
  • Commentary by Executive Producers Seth MacFarlane and David A. Goodman, Executive Producer/Writer Chris Sheridan and Actor Mila Kunis

Disc 3:
  • McStroke
  • Unrated audio is Default. Uncensored Audio
  • Commentary by Executive Producers Seth MacFarlane and David A. Goodman, Director Brian Iles, Writer Wellesley Wild and Actor Lisa Wilhoit



Episode Description:
Disc 1:
  • No Meals On Wheels
  • Boys Do Cry
  • No Chris Left Behind
  • It Takes A Village Idiot, And I Married One
  • Meet The Quagmires

Disc 2:
  • Movin' Out (Brian's Song)
  • Believe It Or Not, Joe's Walking On Air
  • (100th episode) Stewie Kills Lois
  • Lois Kills Stewie
  • Padre de Familia
  • Peter's Daughter

Disc 3:
  • McStroke
Meet the Griffins: Peter, the big, lovable oaf who always says what’s on his mind. Lois, the doting mother who can’t figure out why her baby son keeps trying to kill her. Their daughter Meg, the teen drama queen who’s constantly embarrassed by her family. Chris, the beefy 13-year-old who wouldn’t hurt a fly, unless it landed on his hot dog. Stewie, the maniacal one-year-old bent on world domination. And Brian, the sarcastic dog with a wit as dry as the martinis he drinks. The animated adventures of his outrageous family will have your whole family laughing out loud..



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Family Guy, Vol. 1 (Seasons 1 & 2)

Family Guy
Family Guy, Vol. 1 (Seasons 1 & 2)
Seth MacFarlane (Actor), Alex Borstein (Actor) | Format: DVD
Ranking has gone up in the past 24 hours 10,875% Sales Rank in Movies & TV: 24 (was 2,634 yesterday)
4.7 out of 5 stars(691)

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Meet the Griffins: Peter, the big, lovable oaf who always says what’s on his mind. Lois, the doting mother who can’t figure out why her baby son keeps trying to kill her. Their daughter Meg, the teen drama queen who’s constantly embarrassed by her family. Chris, the beefy 13-year-old who wouldn’t hurt a fly, unless it landed on his hot dog. Stewie, the maniacal one-year-old bent on world domination. And Brian, the sarcastic dog with a wit as dry as the martinis he drinks. The animated adventures of his outrageous family will have your whole family laughing out loud.To the ranks of shows too brilliant and outrageous for prime time (The Ben Stiller Show, Andy Richter Controls the Universe), add Seth McFarlane's Family Guy. This animated series, which debuted after the 1999 Super Bowl, simply sparked too much controversy and offended too many sensibilities to survive (Entertainment Weekly dubbed it "the Awful Show They Just Keep Putting on the Air"). That the Fox network also played hackysack with its schedule, ensuring viewers would not be able to find it, sealed its fate (it was cancelled in 2002). This boxed set containing all 28 episodes from the first two seasons is payback for the show's devoted cult following, who may be moved to echo the words of infant Stewie Griffin, the megalomaniacal 1-year-old bent on matricide and world domination: "Victory is mine!"

The dysfunctional Griffins of Quahog, Rhode Island, invite comparisons to The Simpsons. The testicular-chinned father, Peter Griffin, is a clueless oaf in the Homer mold. "Peter, what did you promise me last night?" asks his long-suffering wife Lois in one episode. "That I wouldn't drink at the stag party," he replies. "And what did you do?" she asks. "Drank at the stag part--oh ho ho, I almost walked into that one," he cackles. Other family members include teenage daughter Meg, a desperate high school social pariah; 13-year-old son Chris, a chip off his father's blockhead; and Brian, the family's sarcastic talking dog. But this series' true inspiration is football-pated Stewie (voiced by McFarlane, who earned an Emmy), who was born to be a Bond villain once he escaped his mother's "ovarian bastille." Family Guy recklessly ventured where The Simpsons feared to tread. In one episode, Meg's one and only friend turns out to be the member of a suicidal cult. In another, Death (voiced by Norm McDonald) becomes an unwanted houseguest. Each episode plays fast and furious with surreal flashes (in one episode, Peter turns his house into a puppet) and pop-culture references and TV, movie, and commercial parodies that invite repeated viewings. Freed from its own family-hour bastille and the whims of dim network executives, Family Guy can be appreciated at last on its own profane, sacrilegious, and irreverent terms. Welcome to the DVD family, Griffins. --Donald Liebenson Read more


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Family Guy, Vol. 5 (Season 5, Part 1)

Family Guy
Family Guy, Vol. 5 (Season 5, Part 1)
Seth MacFarlane (Actor) | Format: DVD
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3.4 out of 5 stars(161)

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Family Guy, Vol. 7

Family Guy
Family Guy, Vol. 7
Seth MacFarlane (Actor), Alex Borstein (Actor), Brian Iles (Director), Cyndi Tang-Loveland (Director) | Format: DVD
Ranking has gone up in the past 24 hours 20,953% Sales Rank in Movies & TV: 13 (was 2,737 yesterday)
3.7 out of 5 stars(116)

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  • Audio: English: 5.1 Dolby Surround
  • Language: Dubbed: English / Subtitled: English, French & Spanish
  • Aspect Ratio: Fullscreen: 1.33:1

Disc 1:

Back to the Woods 22:30
  • Seamless branching
  • Uncensored Audio
  • Unrated audio is default. Air version available from SF menu
  • Commentary by Executive Producers David A. Goodman and Danny Smith, Producer Kara Vallow, Writer Tom Devanney, Director Brian Iles and Actor Seth Green


Play It Again, Brian 22:30
  • Seamless branching
  • Uncensored Audio
  • Unrated audio is default. Air version available from SF menu
  • CCommentary by Executive Producer David A. Goodman, Executive Producer/Writer Danny Smith, Consulting Producer Tom Devanney, Production Supervisor Charles Song, Director John Holmquist and Actor Seth Green

The Former Life of Brian 22:30
  • Seamless branching
  • Uncensored Audio
  • Unrated audio is default. Air version available from SF menu
  • Commentary by Executive Producers Seth MacFarlane, David A. Goodman and Danny Smith, Director Pete Michels and Actor Mike Henry

Long John Peter 22:30
  • Uncensored Audio
  • Unrated audio is default. Air version available from SF menu
  • Commentary by Executive Producers David A. Goodman and Danny Smith, Consulting Producer Tom Devanney, Co-Producer Kim Fertman, Director Dominic Polcino and Actor Seth Green

Love Blactually 22:30
  • Seamless branching
  • Uncensored Audio
  • Unrated audio is default. Air version available from SF menu
  • Commentary by Executive Producer Danny Smith, Producer Kara Vallow, Animation Producer Shannon Smith, Writer/Actor Mike Henry and Director Cyndi Tang

Disc 2:

I Dream of Jesus 22:30
  • Seamless branching
  • Uncensored Audio
  • Unrated audio is default. Air version available from SF menu
  • Commentary by Executive Producer Danny Smith, Co-Executive Producer/Actor Alec Sulkin, Co-Producer Kim Fertman, Writer Brian Scully and Assistant to Seth MacFarlane Spencer Porter


Road to Germany 22:30
  • Seamless branching
  • Uncensored Audio
  • Unrated audio is default. Air version available from SF menu
  • Commentary by Executive Producers Seth MacFarlane and Chris Sheridan, Writer Patrick Meighan, Director Greg Colton and Composer Walter Murphy


Baby Not On Board 22:30
  • Seamless branching
  • Uncensored Audio
  • Unrated audio is default. Air version available from SF menu
  • Commentary by Executive Producers Chris Sheridan and Danny Smith, Co-Executive Producer/Writer Mark Hentemann, Director Julius Wu and Actor Alex Borstein

The Man with Two Brians 22:30
  • Seamless branching
  • Uncensored Audio
  • Unrated audio is default. Air version available from SF menu
  • Commentary by Executive Producers David A. Goodman and Danny Smith, Co-Executive Producer Alec Sulkin, Writer/Actor John Viener and Director Dominic Bianchi

Tales of a Third Grade Nothing 22:30
  • Seamless branching
  • Uncensored Audio
  • Unrated audio is default. Air version available from SF menu
  • Commentary by Executive Producer Seth MacFarlane, Writer Alex Carter, Director Jerry Langford, Actor Frank Sinatra Jr. and Composer Walter Murphy

Ocean’s Three and a Half 22:30
  • Seamless branching
  • Uncensored Audio
  • Unrated audio is default. Air version available from SF menu
  • Commentary by Executive Producers Chris Sheridan and Danny Smith, Co-Executive Producer Mark Hentemann, Animation Producer Shannon Smith and Writer Cherry Chevapravatdumrong

Disc 3:

Family Gay 22:30
  • Seamless branching
  • Uncensored Audio
  • Unrated audio is default. Air version available from SF menu
  • Commentary by Executive Producers Seth MacFarlane and Danny Smith, Co-Executive Producer Mark Hentemann, Writer Richard Appel and Director Brian Iles

The Juice is Loose! 22:30
  • Uncensored Audio
  • Unrated audio is default. Air version available from SF menu
  • Commentary TBD

Deleted Scenes:
  • Ep 602 What Happened to You?
  • Ep 602 Herpes
  • Ep 603 World of Books
  • Ep 604 Big Tease
  • Ep 604 Good Night
  • Ep 604 Where to?
  • Ep 606 The Birds and the Bees
  • Ep 606 Never Sleep with Peter Griffin
  • Ep 606 Tears
  • Ep 607 Quagmire’s Calls
  • Ep 607 To the Grand Canyon
  • Ep 608 Time Machine
  • Ep 608 Beyond Inappropriate
  • Ep 609 Brian’s MySpace
  • Ep 609 Downer
  • Ep 610 You Hate Entourage?
  • Ep 610 I Earned the Money
  • Ep 610 This Club is Dead
  • Ep 610 Pope Poop
  • Ep 610 Working as a Sheep Dog
  • Ep 611 Loud and Confusing
  • Ep 611 Crisscross
  • Ep 611 You are My Best Friend
  • Ep 611 This Isn’t Going to Work
  • Ep 611 Fabulous Dustin
  • Ep 611 Scale Model
  • Ep 612 Don´t Flatter Yourself
  • Ep 612 Hispanic Book Report
  • Ep 612 Freezer Fort

Animatics With Commentary
  • 6ACX03 Love Blactually
  • 6ACX06 Long John Peter
  • 6ACX09 The Man with Two Brians
  • Take Me Out to pLace Tonight
  • Family Guy CRIBZ
  • Comic-Con 2008
  • Family Guy Art Show
Like John Waters' shock-value comedies of yore, Family Guy keeps moving the taste-be-damned line. "You laughed at that?" these episodes spanning seasons six and seven challenge viewers. "Okay, then laugh at this!" AIDS, cancer, incest, September 11, and the films of Matthew McConaughey are all grist for the mill. Though it has taken its lumps from the South Park contingent, Family Guy merrily stays true to its absurdist, arbitrary muse. The stories are ludicrous: James Woods steals Peter Griffin's identity; Brian discovers he has a son; Stewie, Brian, and nebbish pharmacist Mort time travel back in time to Hitler's Germany; and Peter discovers Jesus Christ working at a used record store. You got a problem with that? "Go on the Internet and complain," Brian suggests. The pop-culture references are as ever arcane. "That's more of a letdown than Fruit Stripe gum," Peter remarks at one point. And the politically incorrect jokes can be jaw-droppingly wrong, as witness the game show Are You Smarter Than a Hispanic Maid, the flamboyant gay stereotypes flaunted in the episode "Family Gay," and a bit in which hearing-impaired actress Marlee Matlin tries unsuccessfully to connect with Moviefone. And how does a series on Fox get away with the moment when Stewie finds a McCain/Palin campaign button on a Nazi uniform? From Dane Cook to Jay Leno, Family Guy is always up for celebrity bashing, but some are in on the joke. In "Family Gay," Meredith Baxter spoofs her signature women-in-crisis Lifetime movies, and Seth Rogen good-naturedly supplies his own voice when Peter is injected with the Seth Rogen gene that "gives you the appearance of being funny even though you haven't actually done anything funny." And kudos to Andy Dick for his room-clearing cameo in "Tales of a Third Grade Nothing."

Each episode can be viewed as originally televised or uncensored with F-bombs and other crudities unbleeped. Curiously missing in action from "Ocean's Three and a Half" is one of Family Guy's most inspired bits in which Peter's voice is mixed in to the now-infamous Christian Bale rant tape (you can find it on YouTube). Loyal Family Guy viewers are also rewarded with deleted scenes, lively episode commentaries, an entertaining behind-the-scenes look at the episode "Tales of a Third Grade Nothing," featuring Frank Sinatra Jr., and the Family Guy 2008 Comic-Con panel discussion. Family Guy, observes Mr. Sinatra, "is not comedy. It's satire." What it is, still, is way more often than not flat-out funny. --Donald Liebenson


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Family Guy, Vol. 8

Family Guy
Family Guy, Vol. 8
Format: DVD
Ranking has gone up in the past 24 hours 4,733% Sales Rank in Movies & TV: 42 (was 2,030 yesterday)
3.7 out of 5 stars(48)

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Go where no Family Guy fan has gone before with Family Guy Volume 8 with uncensored and extended episodes and loaded with outrageous extras only available on DVD. Read more


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Due Date (Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy)

Due Date
Due Date (Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy)
Robert Downey Jr. (Actor), Zach Galifianakis (Actor), Todd Phillips (Director) | Format: Blu-ray
Ranking has gone up in the past 24 hours 69% Sales Rank in Movies & TV: 316 (was 535 yesterday)
3.5 out of 5 stars(91)

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From The Hangover director Todd Phillips, Due Date throws two unlikely companions together on a road trip that turns out to be as life-changing as it is outrageous. Expectant first-time father Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr.) looks forward to his new child’s due date five days away. As Peter hurries to catch a flight home from Atlanta to be at his wife’s side for the birth, his best intentions go completely awry when an encounter with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis) forces Peter to hitch a ride with Ethan on a cross-country trip that will ultimately destroy several cars, many friendships and Peter’s last nerve. Due Date is such a broad comedy, it needs the width of the whole United States in which to play out. Director Todd Phillips (The Hangover) lets the gross-out comedic charms of his frequent star Zach Galifianakis run wild, which is exactly what Galifianakis fans want. And Robert Downey Jr. reminds viewers of his appealing straight-man comic talents, too. Due Date is like Planes, Trains and Automobiles meets Nine Months with a little of The Odd Couple thrown in. The writing of Due Date is uneven--perhaps a result of its having had a minimum of six screenwriters working on it. And run time, at only 100 or so minutes, seems much longer. But Due Date gets its energy and charge from its two stars and from Phillips's slaphappy direction. Galifianakis plays Ethan, who's a version of every character Galifianakis has played to date--slovenly, irresponsible, and uncensored. Downey is Peter, a straitlaced new father-to-be, who through an improbable series of unfortunate events can find no other way to get across the country for the birth of his first child than to hitch a ride with Ethan. If the situation is somewhat predictable, the comedic moments are not--though by halfway though the trip, viewers may wonder if Peter will be able to resist strangling Ethan with his own scarf, or worse. The deft supporting cast includes Michelle Monaghan as Peter's wife, Jamie Foxx (in kind of a throwaway role), and Juliette Lewis, appealing and not too ditzy. Viewers who love Phillips's and Galifianakis's trademark slapstick shtick will find plenty to laugh about on this long, strange trip. --A.T. Hurley Read more


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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Get Low

Get Low
Get Low
Robert Duvall (Actor), Bill Murray (Actor), Aaron Schneider (Director) | Format: DVD
Ranking has gone up in the past 24 hours 110% Sales Rank in Movies & TV: 186 (was 391 yesterday)
4.3 out of 5 stars(35)

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Academy Award winner Robert Duvall (1983, Best Actor, Tender Mercies) is Felix Bush, the “Hermit of Caleb County,” a man so haunted by his secrets that he has lived in quiet desolation in the Tennessee backwoods for over 40 years. Realizing that he is near his own mortality, Bush decides to have a “living funeral party,” inviting people to tell their stories about him. Enlisting the help of Frank Quinn (Golden Globe winner Bill Murray, 2004, Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, Lost in Translation) and Buddy Robinson (Lucas Black, Legion), Bush goes through a process of self-discovery, allowing him to deal with his past secrets, including ones involving old flame (and new widow) Mattie (Academy Award winner Sissy Spacek, 1980, Best Actress, Coal Miner's Daughter). Comedies about death aren't exactly a novel proposition, but Get Low, which draws from a real 1930s incident, leaves the gallows humor behind for a lighter touch. After losing the love of his life 40 year before, Felix Bush (Robert Duvall) has lived like a hermit ever since. With death on the horizon and guilt weighing him down, the "crazy ol' nutter" decides to go out with a party. As he tells funeral director Frank Quinn (Bill Murray in top form), "Time for me to get low." Frank and his assistant, Buddy (Duvall's Sling Blade costar Lucas Black), find the request bizarre--since Felix plans to attend--but they can't afford to turn him down. Quips Quinn, "One thing about Chicago, people know how to die. People are dying in bunches, but not around here." So, they fit Felix for a suit, post invitations up around Caleb County, and set up a land raffle to encourage everyone to show. Before he leaves this mortal coil, Felix longs to hear the tall tales the town folk have been spreading about him. While preparing for the big day, he reconnects with Charlie (Bill Cobbs), a preacher, and Mattie (Sissy Spacek), an old flame who returned to the county after her husband's death. Their encounters, which have a gentle sweetness, encourage Felix to share the truth he's kept bottled up inside for decades. After that big buildup, his confession feels a little anticlimactic, but cinematographer-turned-director Aaron Schneider's affection for his characters always shines through. --Kathleen C. Fennessy Read more


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The Lovely Bones (Two-Disc Special Edition) [Blu-ray]

The Lovely
The Lovely Bones (Two-Disc Special Edition) [Blu-ray]
Saoirse Ronan (Actor), Mark Wahlberg (Actor), Peter Jackson (Director) | Format: Blu-ray
Ranking has gone up in the past 24 hours 2,551% Sales Rank in Movies & TV: 350 (was 9,281 yesterday)
3.3 out of 5 stars(183)

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From Academy Award winning director Peter Jackson comes the extraordinary story about one girl’s life, and everything that came after. When 14-year-old Susie Salmon was murdered, she left her unfinished life behind. But now from her place in a strange but beautiful in-between world, she must help her father catch her killer and protect her family before she can finally move on. Filled with thrilling suspense, hope and the redeeming power of love, it’s “One of the best films of the year. Incredibly powerful.” – Harry Knowles, Ain’t it Cool NewsDirector Peter Jackson takes a personal, risky leap in his direction of the film version of Alice Sebold's bestselling novel The Lovely Bones. Yet the leap pays off, in emotional depth and riveting visuals that transport the viewer to other worlds--even ones the viewer may not want to visit. The Lovely Bones is lofted by its star-making performance by the young Saoirse Ronan (Atonement), who plays Susie Salmon, the 14-year-old girl who is murdered early in the film, and who narrates the action from her "in-between place" after dying but before going to heaven. Ronan makes Susie as earthy and awkward as any young teen, yet her presence, and her gorgeous pale eyes, remind viewers that she's otherworldly too. The Lovely Bones takes some big departures from the book, as many critics have pointed out, but it works well on its own merits. The drama involves how (even whether) Susie's family will recover after her ghastly murder, and what happens to her killer and the futile-seeming search for justice and closure. The entire cast is stellar, including Mark Wahlberg and Rachel Weisz as Susie's nearly destroyed parents; the composed young New Zealand actress Rose McIver, who plays Susie's younger sister, whom Susie watches grow up to be the young woman that Susie will never get to be; and Susan Sarandon, the boozy, wisecracking grandmother who may or may not be able to help keep the family from splintering into a million pieces. The other true standout is Stanley Tucci, almost unrecognizable as the quiet, creepy neighbor who kills Susie, obsessing over every detail and perhaps having left a whole trail of gruesome murders in his shambling wake. Jackson's deft direction keeps the mourning humans moving along believably, numbly, and gives breathtaking life to the afterlife, in scenes of fantasy and dread that recall his Heavenly Creatures. The film is rated PG-13 but is not recommended for younger teenagers because of its intense subject matter, though handled delicately. --A.T. Hurley

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